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Restorative Justice takes on West Oakland schools
from an article by Cassidy Friedman on New America Media:
From 2005 to 2009, the city of Oakland backed a restorative justice pilot project at Cole Middle School, in West Oakland, which was already slated to be shut down for low test scores. It was among the first attempts to implement restorative justice circles at a U.S. school.
By the final year, standardized test scores had risen by 74 points.
The school, which had suffered from a high turnover of teachers, retained all of its faculty.
And delinquency plummeted; suspensions fell 87 percent and expulsions dropped to zero.
May 11, 2011 School, Region: North America and Caribbean, Policy, Evaluation, Country:USA
